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Friday, October 10, 2014

How Big Brother Can Watch You With Metadata

Why did Bradley Cooper and Jessica Alba fail to record a tip when they paid their cabbies during New York City taxi rides back in 2013? Why was Cooper near a Mediterranean restaurant in Greenwich Village? Why was Alba at a ritzy hotel in Soho? We don't know the answers, but we do know exactly when and where the movie stars were going, and we also know there's no record of them forking over any gratuity. What's worrisome, say privacy experts, is that we know all of this not from some special government sting operation but from publicly available data about millions of people's movements throughout New York City.

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